Dr. Ethan Kross
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968 appearances
6 recordings
6 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard May 2025
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The most important thing to do is learn about the tools. Just familiarize yourself with them. What I love about these tools is decades of research have gone into their identification. Complex, back-breaking effort. But the take-homes are super simple. Mental time travel. How am I going to feel about this next year? Into the past. How does this compare with what Bubby went through, my grandmother?
Ethan, you've got this. I mean, these are simple things that don't take a whole lot of time and energy to practice. Just familiarize yourself with them and then start self-experimenting. That is the launch pad. for gaining control of your chatter.
And so my invitation to you is to familiarize yourself with the tools that are out there, start self-experimenting, find the tools that work best for you and share them with other people. That is the way I think we help really combat this universal affliction. Ethan, you are so awesome. Now you're giving me all the- Well, no, I actually mean it.
Well, the feeling is totally, totally, totally mutual.
I see.
Sounds liberating.
No, I'm a little bit of both. Positively shifting people's emotions at how big the shift you get from going to the bathroom when you really need to go.
You're probably bracing and tense. I just went up like on a 10 point scale, four points. I'm so much happier.
This is Hidden Brain.
This is Hidden Brain.
This is Hidden Brain.
Well, what that means is we get to ask two kinds of questions in my lab. So number one, we try to understand how do people work when it comes to managing their emotions. And we really care about getting in there to understand the mechanics that underlie what we call emotion regulation.
And then the second kind of question we tackle is how can we use this understanding of the nuts and bolts that explain how people can manage their emotions to actually help them do a better job of that in their daily lives outside the lab. And so, um,
Trying to address those two big picture issues is something that keeps us really busy and is something that is really fun, a fun way to spend your life.
It's a great question, and it's funny. I often, when I'm speaking about this topic to folks, I often ask people, hey, who here feels comfortable coming up to the front and just telling us what it means to have an emotion? What is an emotion? It's kind of wild.
We experience emotions, according to this one study that I cite in my book, about 90% of the time that we're awake, we're experiencing some type of emotional response. We are truly an emotional species. And yet if you ask people, as I often do in presentations or when I'm teaching, what's an emotion? People often just stop and they have trouble answering that question.
So let me pose it to you actually before I go give you my definition. What do you think an emotion is? And don't worry about being right or wrong.
So not bad, not bad. So I define emotions as responses we have to events in our lives that we deem meaningful, i.e. they capture our attention in some way. And these could be situations that happen to us as we're navigating the world outside or even situations we imagine in our minds. And when we encounter those circumstances, we're
It's almost like a software program that gets loaded up to help us manage that circumstance. And that software program has a few different pieces, a few different components. So emotions activate what we call a loosely coordinated set of responses. What do I mean by that? Well, when we experience emotion, there's often a physiological component.
So if I experience a little bit of anxiety, I often feel that in my stomach. It kind of feels like the stomach is ringing. I've got to go to the toilet right away, depending on how potent a response that is that predicts the strength of that impulse. Yeah. Our emotions are also capturing our cognition, how we're thinking about our circumstances.
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